ST MARGARETSBURY COMMUNITY HOME

ST MARGARETSBURY COMMUNITY HOME, STATION ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1078705
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1983
List Entry Name:: ST MARGARETSBURY COMMUNITY HOME
Statutory Address:: ST MARGARETSBURY COMMUNITY HOME, STATION ROAD

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Date:: 2000-08-23
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1078705
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1983
List Entry Name:: ST MARGARETSBURY COMMUNITY HOME
Statutory Address 1:: ST MARGARETSBURY COMMUNITY HOME, STATION ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ST MARGARETSBURY COMMUNITY HOME, STATION ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Stanstead St. Margarets
National Grid Reference:: TL 37891 11571

Details

TL 31NW STANSTEAD STATION ROAD ST MARGARETS (south side) St Margarets village 5/58 St Margaretsbury Community Home

II

Former large house now a community home, probably early C19, extended and 'rebuilt' 1890 by Ernest Newton for Septimus Croft, builder J A Hunt, (inscribed inside porch). 2-storeys grey brick double-pile house with complex roofs, slated or tiled with mansards on N side. Sash windows with flat gauged arches and 6/6 panes generally. Plinth, floorband and parapeted eaves. Brick pedimented wing projects on NE with stucco Ionic porch with columns and full entablature. E front has a shallow 2-storeys bow and a projecting chimney. 2 similar bows at E end of S (garden) front and a wider bow with Portland Stone Ionic order to ground floor, framing 3 French windows. Curved sash windows over have stone double keystones. Good panelled interior to library and drawing room (also Dutch tiles in Arts and Crafts fire surround). Older house may have been built by Rev Stephen Platt c1760 as the rectory mansion and sold by family to Croft in 1889. Bought by County Council c1943. An interesting house of high quality with good interiors by Ernest Newton. Contemporary stable block linked at W.

Listing NGR: TL3789111571

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Legacy System number:: 355987
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.